babysitting.

this week has been incredibly long and tiring, but also kind of wonderful at the same time. i'm defnintely ready for the weekend though. especially since this weekend includes a lot of cake eating, which i am very excited about.

in other news, i babysat two of my favorite little girls last night. julie (9) and ruxing (7). they are so adorable, i just want to squeeze them. we had a great time eating macaroni and cheese and watching the disney channel until it was time for them to go to bed.

here are some of my favorite moments from last night:

• helping xin fold her laundry and realizing that the width of her pant legs are about the same as the sleeves on my shirt.
• me asking julie when xin's birthday is, and her replying with "well last year it was on the 26th, so i think it's on the 27th this year."
• julie telling me that the pj's i was wearing were "public" pj's.
• julie creating this super cute banner for her grandma, who's coming to visit today. it says "welcome grandma." so sweet!

• running into a couple spiders while attempting to hang that banner and julie telling me i'm "SO girly" after seeing my reaction. (for the record, i may be girly but killed the spiders.)
• helping xin do her homework, which was to read these two small books that basically consisted of the same sentence on every page with a few words changed on each one. she gets discouraged really easily, but her face lit up every time she finally figured out a word she'd been stuck on. it was so cute.
• seeing cory matthews (and his non-topanga girlfriend) on one of the shows we watched.
• seeing hollywood ending in one of the commercials they had about the music contest they're having. remember hollywood ending? they played at the space a few weeks ago and i wrote about it.
• asking "who's ready for bed?!" with my hand raised at like, 6:30 p.m. just to see their reactions. (and also because i really was.) julie stared at me with raised eyebrows and that look kids give you when you talk about wanting to take a nap or going to bed early because they don't understand yet. xin frowned at me because she misunderstood and thought i meant it was time for her to go to bed.

basically, i had a really fun night. they're so cute and funny. i was tempted to let them stay up later just because i wanted to hang out with them longer. but i know their teachers (and val) wouldn't have appreciated that, so i got them in bed on time. plus, i'll get to see them a lot this weekend, so it works out.

–– s